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World record for the largest balloon release-St John's Church Eardley Road

26/8/2021

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St John's Church Eardley Road became the Kite and Balloon Company

On This Day 27 August 1994 the company held the world record for the largest balloon release- setting free 1.59 million balloons at Longleat for the European launch of Disney's Alladin Video

Just one of the facts covered in John Brown's- Fascinating Streatham available from the Society https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/architecture-and...
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Evelyn Jephson “Evie” Flower Cameron

26/8/2021

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On This Day 26th August 1868 Evelyn Cameron was born. Daughter of Philip Flower of "Furzedown House" Streatham

Evelyn Jephson “Evie” Flower Cameron (August 26, 1868 – December 26, 1928) was a photographer and diarist of the American West, who documented her life as a pioneer near Terry, Montana from the late 1890s onward.
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She is best known for her photography chronicling the early life of settlers in Eastern Montana, depicting cowboys, sheepherders, weddings, river crossings, freight wagons, ranch work, badlands, eagles, coyotes and wolves.
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Our #ThrowbackThursday for this week and GiG sounds in Mitcham Lane Streatham- sadly they and E&A Wates have now closed photo courtesy Kevin Kelly

26/8/2021

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Albert Coleman of Holly Lodge

26/8/2021

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On This Day 26th August 1902 Albert Coleman died

"Holly Lodge" 29 Streatham High Road (opposite Woodbourne Ave) was occupied by Alfred Coleman (1829) an eminent Dental Surgeon, Lecturer at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London Hospital Dental School and President of the Odontological Society.

Also living in the house were his wife Fanny, 5 daughters and two sons together with 5 servants
(Source 1881 Census)

The image below is of his family in their garden - June 1884
After the family left to live in Epsom the house was occupied by Vavasour Earle, a manufacture agent, his wife Elizabeth, 4 daughters and 4 sons together with 4 servants
(Source 1891 Census)
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The house was demolished in the 1930's
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The wedding of Anne Chaperlin to Bill O'Keefe.

25/8/2021

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This Appeared in the Stage On This Day 25th August 1960

The wedding of Anne Chaperlin to Bill O'Keefe.
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Mr Chaperlin owned the Stork Club and was the Manager of the Locarno. Mr Exton was the editor of the Streatham News. Both were neighbours living at "The High"
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Sean Connery was born On This Day 25th August 1930.​He appeared at the Streatham Hill Theatre in South Pacific

25/8/2021

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Thomas "Red" Imrie

24/8/2021

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Thomas "Red" Imrie died on 24th August 2020. He was a player and coach for Streatham Redskins
He guided the Redskins to three league titles and two play‑off triumphs. He retired after taking them to the semi-finals of the 1985 Heineken British Championships

He competed for GB in the 1961 and 1962 World Championships and voted the the tournament’s best defenceman, the first Brit ever to receive the honour in 1966. He was capped 19 times for Britain, tallying 11 points (six goals).

He was recruited in 1986 by BBC-TV as a colour commentator, working alongside Alan Weeks and later with Barry Davies. During the 1980s and 1990s the BBC screened several Wembley finals on Grandstand and a ‘game of the month’.

Red spent his retirement in Coulsdon, Surrey where he played his beloved golf - his handicap was in single figures - almost every day until he became unwell in his eighties.
Thomas (Red) Imrie was born in Falkirk, Scotland on July 15, 1937 and died on 24 August 2020.
(Falkirk Herald)
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Newspaper clip Norwood News 25 Dec 1959 Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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Streatham's Graham Sutherland

24/8/2021

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On This Day 24th August 1903 Graham Sutherland was born at 8 Pendle Road, Streatham.

Eldest of the three children of George Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1873–1952), barrister and civil servant at the Board of Education, and his wife, Elsie Foster (1877–1957).

Technically gifted and endlessly imaginative, Graham Sutherland is one of the 20th century’s most influential and inventive voices, capturing the character of Britain before, during and after the Second World War. (Sources Rosie Lesso and Roger Berthoud)
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Lady Caroline Russell

23/8/2021

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On this day 23 August 1762 Lady Caroline Russell married George Duke of Marlborough at Bedford House and officially recorded at St Leonards Church Streatham
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Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough (January 1743 – 26 November 1811), formerly Lady Caroline Russell.
(Image Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough, by Sir Joshua Reynolds)
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Fanny Burney's stroll through Streatham

23/8/2021

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On this Day 23 August 1778 Fanny Burney and Hester Thrale visted the Shrubbery and Fanny recalled the occasion in her diary.

"After dinner I had a delightful stroll with Mrs Thrale and she gave me a list of all her good neighbours in the town of Streatham and she said she was determined to take me to see Mr Tattersall, the clergyman, who was a character and could not but be diverted with, for he had so furious and so absurd a rage for building that in his garden he has as many temples and summer houses and statues as in the gardens of Stow, though he had so little room for them that they all seemed tumbling one upon another"
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(Source JW Brown: St Leonard's Streatham. A guide to an ancient parish church that rose from the ashes after the fire in 1975) This book is available to purchase from the Society https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/publications.html
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